Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Top Ten Favorite Quotes From Books

I love quotes as much as I love top ten list.
Which actually isn't that good a thing, since there is no way I'm narrowing it down to ten.

I'm gonna cheat a little with some and combine two from the same
book.

1) “But really, the term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.”
― Meg Cabot, Abandon

2) “True love is like a metal tested in a fire. Fires of adversity
surround us daily. Are we to love only when it is merely convenient?
Like gold or silver, which very hot fire must heat to purge them of
impurities, love must be thrust into the fire from time to time to make
it purer, stronger and more resilient. And in the same way, love shines
its brightest right out of the flames.”

“So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause
us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn
to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let
them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the
seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the
rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle
us, and cause us to lose hope.”

9) “How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were
desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the
way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed
them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the
world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up
hating yourself the most.”

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